Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds Review

For the uninitiated, the Hot Shots Golf series is a great example of incredible attention to physics covered with a sugar candy coating. Using a superdeformed look unique to the series, Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds looks like a blend of Japanese Anime coupled with realistic backgrounds. All of the characters are semi-short versions of themselves with big heads, large hands, and really big eyes. It is not unlike what we

You are gonna love the voices in this game or absolutely despise them. Everyone sounds like an exaggerated Anime stereotype. What I mean by that is that the Scottish guy sounds extra Scottish, the girls are all extra squeaky (some to the point of not even sounding human anymore), and everyone is nice to the point where I felt like I was about to get a sugar buzz.

Ugh

In Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds there are two shot types

Each character in the game (there are 15 in all, classified from Novice to Expert) have five very important stats that govern their overall skill. Power, Control, Impact, Spin, and Spidespin vary between characters, but are modified even further by choosing between the 8 club types and 8 ball types. Some will bump your impact and control significantly only to cost you a great deal of power. Balance in all things grasshopper. Once you get past the initial two characters you

Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds features 1-4 local multiplayer, as well as up to 50 players for massive online tournaments. On day 1 for the game I was only able to find a few players already hitting the links. The online mode is split up into

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